ASSOCIATED PRESS
Elsa Alonzo cleans the kitchen at Alberto's Cocina-Deli, the restaurant her family owns in Mamaroneck, N.Y, after flash floods from the remnants of Hurricane Ida inundated the community, Saturday, Sept. 4. More than four days after the hurricane blew ashore in Louisiana, Ida's rainy remains hit the Northeast with stunning fury on Wednesday and Thursday, submerging cars, swamping subway stations and basement apartments and drowning scores of people in five states.